The Bonneville Run is a road trip being undertaken by a group of Australians. We're travelling from Perth in Western Australia and putting together the ultimate road trip. The 2010 version of the trip stated and ended in San Jose, California and over 5000 miles of driving later, we'd visited Los Angeles, Las Vegas, The Grand Canyon and much more. The highlight of the journey is a visit to the Bonneville Salt Flats for the SCTA's Bonneville SpeedWeek 2010.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Saying Goodbye to the Salt

Of course, all good things must come to an end, and eventually we had to leave Wendover and the Bonneville Salt Flats. Before we did however, we paid a visit to the Wendover Airport and their small museum devoted to the World War II history of the town, including the training of the B29 crews involved in delivering the first nuclear weapons used over the towns of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

When we left Wendover, we headed west towards our next overnight stop in Winnemucca, Nevada, but along the way we had to stop off in the town of Elko, where one of our friends has been living for several years. Lee and Sherry are now back home in Perth, but it was good to see the town they've called home for the last five or so years.

Our overnight stop was a small motel in Winnemucca called the Town House Motel, and it was a very refreshing surprise after the accommodation in Wendover. Of all the things Wendover has to offer, it appears great accommodation deals during SpeedWeek aren't one of them, so clean, fresh smelling rooms with wifi provided were a great surprise in Winnemucca.

About Me

In my daily life, I am a parts interpreter at a Holden dealer, but in my spare time, I'm a motorsport and event photographer who dabbles in a little landscape and nature work. A bit of a jack of all trades photographically, I guess.

Neither job pays particularly well, but the day job pays well enough and lets me walk away stress free at the end of the day so that I can concentrate on taking photos and not have to worry about what I need to do at work tomorrrow.

I have spent a bit of time travelling around Australia when I was younger, and am a big fan of taking road trips when I can. In 2009, I bought a car over eBay and had it delivered to my brothers place in San Jose, California. I made my first visit to the US in August of that year and spent a month around San Jose and San Francisco. I then left the car in the trusty hands of my brother and his wife, and promised to get it out of their yard as soon as I could organise shipping. As it turns out, that didn't happen for a while, as I ended up going back in August the following year for a 5000 mile road trip taking in the sights of California, Utah, Nevada and a little of Arizona.

As of July 2015, I've added a few more stamps to the passport, but not been back to the USA again. I am, however, planning on changing that in August 2016, with another road trip from California to the Bonneville salt and beyond.